Customer Offerings: An Introduction to Power BI Related Offerings

In this series of articles, we will present Premier Services Offerings around Power BI. In this first one we will succinctly present them all, but we will publish other articles to deep dive on those different offers highlighting their values as well as presenting current investment.

Introduction

Power BI helps to make every decision based on data it enables a single unified platform to ask smarter business questions and get to actionable insight faster.

As a Premier Field Engineers at Microsoft, we encounter customers with different kinds of needs around Power BI, some of them want to proactively learn and begin to use our products having in mind all best practices, some of them want to implement, deploy and validate their use of our technologies by going to throw an assessment, and other kinds of customers who already have deep knowledge want to assess and optimize applying our methodology and tooling in order to better tunes and optimize cost.

To support all those different needs, we have developed different kinds of content and those can be grouped in these three categories:

1. Discovery & Assess: Workshops are designed as a combination of assessment to diagnose potential issues and knowledge transfer to configure and implement a Power BI Enterprise Deployment.
2. Upskill & Design: Workshops are designed as a combination of theory and practical applications and provide from Microsoft Subject Matter Experts knowledge that will help them use and get the best of Microsoft technologies.
3. Configure & Implement: Workshops are designed as a combination of assessment to diagnose potential issues and knowledge transfer to performance tuning and optimization methodology.

Notes: Premier Services deliveries are advanced technical intervention available to Premier Support customers. Developed by Microsoft Premier Field Engineer and delivered by an accredited Engineer in person or online, these workshops are focused on enhancing knowledge and skills around a specific technology, product, or online service.

Power BI Premier Offering

Offers Presentation

Nowadays they are six workshops, from one to three days and for different kinds of audiences. The beginner to advanced users will find topics to learn on. Let’s present them quickly here but as said more articles will present them more deeply.

1. Discovery & Assess

• Power BI Assessment
  • Duration: 2 days.
  • Audience: This workshop is targeted for enterprise who want to gain a deeper understanding of all aspects of their Power BI environment and have proposed solutions for each of the issues identified and articulated in recommendations on Power BI report.
  • Presentation: Power BI Assessment is a proactive service to diagnose potential issues with your Power BI environment. Engineer will provide valuable guidance on recommended practices to improve the health of your Power BI environment. At the end of this engagement, you will receive a comprehensive Power BI report with results of the assessment, a detailed best practice guidance deck and a summary report tailored to your environment.

2. Upskill & Design

• WorkshopPLUS - Data AI Business Analytics with Power BI
  • Duration: 3 days.
  • Audience: This workshop is targeted at IT administrators, Business Intelligence Power Users, Business Analytics Developers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists.
  • Presentation: Develop deep knowledge of the latest Microsoft business analyst tool, Power BI Desktop, and the accompanying cloud service, which allows publishing, consumption, and secure sharing of information. Also understand how to use Power BI Desktop to connect to your operational data sources, transform them to meet your business requirements, produce data models and Develop highly visual and highly interactive reports and dashboards.

• WorkshopPLUS - Data AI Advanced Data Analytics with Power BI
  • Duration: 2 days.
  • Audience: This workshop is targeted at IT administrators, Business Intelligence Power Users, Business Analytics Developers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists. Participants that have existing experience in Power BI and want to optimize their Power BI investments will receive the most value from this course.
  • Presentation: This workshop contains those three different modules: Advanced Data Modeling in Power BI, Power BI Premium and Embedded Analytics, Security and Administration in Power BI.

• WorkshopPLUS - Data AI Reporting Services and Power BI Report Server
  • Duration: 3 days.
  • Audience: This workshop is targeted at Report Designers, Analysts, Business Analytics Developers, and Data Engineers.
  • Presentation: This workshop is regarding the On-Premises way to share Power BI Report. It will provide the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the capabilities and usage of SQL Server Reporting Services and the Power BI Report Server. It will help participants to get familiar with report design concepts and skills needed to develop Reporting Services Paginated, Mobile, and Power BI Reports.

• Activate Business Analytics with Power BI
  • Duration: 3 days.
  • Audience: This engagement is targeted at IT administrators, Business Intelligence Power Users, Business Analytics Developers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists.
  • Presentation: Primary goal of the engagement is to work with customers to develop a proof of concept (POC). In this engagement, your team will learn how to use and deploy Power BI to make quick, confident data-based decisions, and to leverage that knowledge for future deployments. After discussions with your Microsoft engineer, you will select a scenario that best fits your organization’s needs from development to governance and operational framework.

3. Configure & Implement

• Power BI Clinic
  • Duration: 3 days.
  • Audience: This workshop is targeted at IT administrators, Business Intelligence Power Users, Business Analytics Developers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists.
  • Presentation: This workshop will provide an opportunity to work with a Microsoft Subject Matter Expert on Performance Tuning and Optimization of “Slow Running Power BI Reports”, with focus on Report Models and Data Analysis Expression.

Follow up and feedback

For further information, please contact your Microsoft Account Representative, Technical Account Manager (TAM) or Service Delivery Manager (SDM).

To improve our workshop, we always consider feedback from you. At Microsoft, achieving a high level of satisfaction among our customers and partners around the world is a core component of our business. For that reason, don’t hesitate to complete them and give feedback.

 Thanks to Sajas Salahuddeen and Raghu Prasad B R for this article review. 

Author: Romain Casteres, Senior Data & AI Premier Field Engineer based in Paris, France.